Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle of the Bog of Allen to be frightened to death by a lot of Liverpool seldom-fed bastards . . . No, be Jesus, I was from Russell Street, North Circular Road, Dublin, from the Northside where, be Jesus, the likes of Dale wouldn't make a dinner for them, where the whole of this pack of Limeys would be scruff-hounds would be et, bet, and threw up again-et without salt. I'll James you, you bastard...
...Daughter of Darkness) and back to Manhattan for TV (Cradle Song and The Letter). Between assignments she lives with husband Denis O'Dea, a dental student turned actor, and their ten-year-old son in a four-story Georgian house in Dublin. The blunt matter-of-factness she displayed as Maggie Wylie last week belongs in large measure to Siobhan McKenna. Says she: "I'm a party girl, but if I have a hangover, I take nothing for it; I want to know how hung over I am." Her forthright opinions are famed among her friends. Some samples...
...Casey concerns himself with the dreaded Black-and-Tans (Were they ever anything but "dreaded" Black-and-Tans? Didn't even their mothers love them?). The dreaded Black-and-Tans busily rip the peace of Dublin, while in shivery cold-water attics, rust-thatched idealists plan a land where freedom would be free. An innocuous poet and his cowardly roomie stash some unwanted bombs in the bosom of an ample simpleton; she is torn off screaming by the dreaded Black-and-Tans, executed, and leaves the two with the empty feeling that they've been naughty, somehow, much...
...failed to achieve the two goals closest to his heart: the unity of Ireland and the revival of Gaelic as the national tongue. But nobody thought for a minute that he would now fail to get into the Arus an Uachtarain, the presidential mansion set in Dublin's Phoenix Park. There was even talk that the opposition Fine Gael Party would let Dev run unopposed in the June presidential election-if only out of enthusiasm at the idea of seeing him safely removed from active politics. The independent Irish Times, which has often bitterly attacked Dev and his "break...
...Dublin...